. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHE/119 
30 October 2009  
 (09-5416) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SWITZERLAND
  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Federal Office of Public Health 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above :   
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs 
Non-tariff Measures Division Effingerstrasse 1 CH-3003 Berne Fax ++41 31 324 09 58 E-mail: paula.wey@seco.admin.ch 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   
- Boroxid (CAS No 1303-86-2) 
- Borsäure (CAS N° 10043-35-3) - Bromadiolon (CAS No 28772-56-7) - Chloralose (CAS No 15879-93-3) - Chlorophacinon (CAS No 3691-35-8) - Coumatetralyl (CAS No 5836-29-3) 
- Dinatriumoctaborat Tetrahydrat (CAS No 12280-03-4) 
- Dinatriumtetraborat  (CAS No (wasserfrei): 1330-43-4)  (CAS No (Pentahydrat): 12267-73-1)  (CAS No (Decahydrat): 1303-96-4) 
- Fenpropimorph (CAS No 67564-91-4) 
- Indoxacarb  (CAS No S-Enantiomer: 173584-44-6) (CAS No R-Enantiomer: 185608-75-7) - Phosphin freisetzendes Aluminiumphosphid (CAS No 20859-73-8) 
- Stickstoff (CAS No 7727-37-9) 
- Sulfurylfluorid (CAS No 2699-79-8) - Thiacloprid (CAS No 111988- 49-9) G/TBT/N/CHE/119 
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  5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft of Ordinance of 
the Federal Office of Public Health (O FOPH) concerning the inscription of active 
substances for the use in biocidal products  according to the annexe 1 of the Swiss 
Ordinance on Biocidal Products (OBP) (27 pages;  available in German and French).      
6. Description of content:  According to art. 9 paragraph 2 letter a and b of the present OBP 
the Federal Office of Public Health is the comp etent authority to amend the List I of active 
substances for inclusion in biocidal products according to Annex 1, corresponding to Annex 
I of Directive 98/8/EC. With the OFOPH th e following 14 active s ubstances will amend 
List I: Boroxid, Borsäure, Bromadiolon, Chloralose, Chlorophacinon, Coumatetralyl, 
Dinatriumoctaborat Tetrahydrat, Dinatriu mtetraborat, Fenpropimorph, Indoxacarb, 
Phosphin freisetzendes Aluminiumphosphid, Stickstoff, Sulfurylfluorid, Thiacloprid.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of public health and of  the environment. Harmonisation.  
8. Relevant documents:   Swiss Ordinance on Biocidal Products (SR 813.12), available in 
French, German and Italian.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    19 October 2009   
15 November 2009   
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the date of notification 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:     
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/tbt/che/09_3795_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/tbt/che/09_3795_00_x.pdf